NY Office of the Professions License Search

Verify New York State professional licenses, business entities, pharmacy establishments, and limited/temporary permits — nursing, medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, psychology, engineering, accountancy (CPA), veterinary medicine, physical therapy, social work, and 80+ other professions regulated by the NYSED Office of the Professions. Search by name or look up an exact license/entity/registration/permit number and get registration status, dates, and professional-misconduct/enforcement history. HTTP-only via the official public verification API. No auth, no proxy, no CAPTCHA.

What this actor does

• Seven modes, matching every tab of NYSED's public verification portal:
  • search — individual licensee by name
  • byLicenseNumber — individual license, exact lookup
  • businessEntitySearch — business entities (PCs/PLLCs/firms) by name, including an "All Business Entities" cross-profession option
  • byBusinessEntityId — business entity, exact PSC-number lookup
  • pharmacySearch — pharmacy establishments by name
  • byPharmacyRegistrationNumber — pharmacy establishment, exact registration-number lookup
  • permitteeSearch — limited/temporary permit holders by name
• 89 professions/boards covered for individual licensees and permits, 76 for business entities (plus "All Business Entities") — nursing, medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, psychology, engineering, accountancy, veterinary medicine, physical/occupational therapy, social work, and more
• Registration/entity/permit status — current status, issue/filing dates, expiry/registered-through dates
• Enforcement/discipline history — professional-misconduct actions on file, when present, for both individuals and business entities
• Optional detail enrichment — name searches (individual and business) return a light listing by default; each result can be enriched with the full record (status, dates, principals, discipline) in the same run
• Empty fields are omitted — a field only appears when the source actually has a value for it

Output per record

Individual license (recordType: "license"):

• name, profession, professionCode, licenseNumber, address, dateOfLicensure
• status, registeredThroughDate — detail lookups / fetchFullDetails only
• additionalQualifications, privileges, additionalLicenses, certificateOfAuthorizations — when on file
• hasDisciplinaryAction (true/false), enforcementActions[] — when present

Business entity (recordType: "businessEntity"):

• name, profession, professionCode, entityType, pscNumber, address
• status, initialFilingDate, currentThroughDate, closeDate — detail lookups / fetchFullDetails only
• principals[] (name + licenseNumber of officers/shareholders), certificateOfAuthorizations — when on file
• hasEnforcementAction (true/false), enforcementActions[] — when present

Pharmacy establishment (recordType: "pharmacy"):

• name, tradeName, legalName, registrationNumber, establishmentType, address, county, status
• dateFirstRegistered, dateRegistrationBegins, dateRegisteredThrough, deletedDate
• supervisor, successor, successorRegistrationNumber — when on file
• hasEnforcementAction (true/false), enforcementActions[] — when present

Permittee (recordType: "permit"):

• name, profession, professionCode, address, permitType, permitStatus, permitNumber
• issueDate, expireDate, supervisors[] — when on file

All record types share: sourceUrl (the NYSED verification portal) and scrapedAt.

Invalid input (unknown profession code, malformed ID, no match found) produces a recordType: "error" record instead, with error, message, and input fields.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	string	search	One of the seven modes above
profession	string	022 (RN)	Profession code for search/byLicenseNumber — see the dropdown for all 89 professions
licenseeName	string	Smith	Last name, or Last First (mode=search)
licenseNumber	string	500000	Exact license number (mode=byLicenseNumber)
businessProfession	string	003 (Architecture)	Profession code for businessEntitySearch/byBusinessEntityId (76 options + "All Business Entities")
businessEntityName	string	Medical	Firm/business name (mode=businessEntitySearch)
pscNumber	string	035673	Exact professional-service-corporation number (mode=byBusinessEntityId)
pharmacyName	string	CVS	Pharmacy legal or trade name (mode=pharmacySearch)
pharmacyRegistrationNumber	string	017682	Exact 6-digit pharmacy registration number (mode=byPharmacyRegistrationNumber)
permitProfession	string	060 (Physician)	Profession code for permitteeSearch (89 options)
permitteeName	string	Smith	Permit holder's last name, or Last First (mode=permitteeSearch)
fetchFullDetails	boolean	true	For mode=search/businessEntitySearch, also fetch full status + discipline/principal data per result
maxItems	int	50	Hard cap on emitted records (1–2000)

Example: search nurses named Garcia with full detail

{
  "mode": "search",
  "profession": "022",
  "licenseeName": "Garcia",
  "fetchFullDetails": true,
  "maxItems": 50
}

Example: fast name-only listing (no discipline enrichment)

{
  "mode": "search",
  "profession": "060",
  "licenseeName": "Chen",
  "fetchFullDetails": false,
  "maxItems": 100
}

Example: look up one license by number

{
  "mode": "byLicenseNumber",
  "profession": "022",
  "licenseNumber": "500000"
}

Example: verify a CPA's license and discipline history

{
  "mode": "byLicenseNumber",
  "profession": "007",
  "licenseNumber": "N12345"
}

Example: search architecture/engineering firms named Smith across all professions

{
  "mode": "businessEntitySearch",
  "businessProfession": "ALL",
  "businessEntityName": "Smith",
  "maxItems": 50
}

Example: look up a business entity by PSC number

{
  "mode": "byBusinessEntityId",
  "businessProfession": "007",
  "pscNumber": "081283"
}

Example: search pharmacies named CVS

{
  "mode": "pharmacySearch",
  "pharmacyName": "CVS",
  "maxItems": 50
}

Example: search physicians holding limited/temporary permits

{
  "mode": "permitteeSearch",
  "permitProfession": "060",
  "permitteeName": "Patel",
  "maxItems": 50
}

Use cases

• Background checks — verify a healthcare or licensed professional's credentials before hiring or referral
• Compliance teams — confirm a contractor, vendor, or firm holds an active, undisciplined license or registration
• HR / staffing agencies — bulk-verify nursing, therapy, or engineering license status
• Insurance & credentialing — cross-check practitioner and business-entity licensure and enforcement history
• Consumer protection — check a provider's or pharmacy's disciplinary record before engaging their services
• Legal & due diligence — pull professional-misconduct history for individuals and firms as part of investigations
• Pharmacy network verification — confirm a pharmacy's registration status, supervisor, and enforcement history

FAQ

What is the data source? The New York State Education Department (NYSED) Office of the Professions' official public license-verification service, the same data shown at op.nysed.gov's Online Verification Searches. The database is described by NYSED as updated daily.

Is this affiliated with NYSED? No — this is an independent, third-party actor that queries NYSED's public verification API. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by the New York State Education Department.

Why do I need to pick a profession before searching? NYSED's verification system scopes every individual, business-entity, and permit search to exactly one profession/board (or "All Business Entities" for business search), since license/entity numbers are only unique within a profession, not globally. Pharmacy search is not profession-scoped.

Why does a name search sometimes return fewer fields than an ID lookup? Name-search listings (individual and business entity) only contain the summary fields (name, profession, address, ID, date). Turn on fetchFullDetails to also fetch status, dates, and discipline/principal data for every result (one extra request per result).

What does hasDisciplinaryAction: false / hasEnforcementAction: false mean vs. no enforcementActions field? Both mean the same thing: no professional-misconduct action is on file. The boolean flag is always present so you can filter reliably; enforcementActions only appears when there is at least one action to show.

How current is the license status? NYSED states its verification database is refreshed daily.

Can I search by business/entity name instead of an individual? Yes — use mode=businessEntitySearch (by name) or mode=byBusinessEntityId (exact PSC number) to search professional service corporations, PLLCs, and firms.

Can I search pharmacy establishments or temporary/limited permit holders? Yes — mode=pharmacySearch/byPharmacyRegistrationNumber covers pharmacy establishments, and mode=permitteeSearch covers holders of limited/temporary practice permits.